Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
SALLUSTIt is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
More Sallust Quotes
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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